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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1897
Page
8
Stella, a servant girl with a prophetic gaze, befriends Gabriel Verner the exiled scholar and plans a new life amid Lashmar Castle’s glacial politics and aging Lady Lashmar. A forbidden library, a broken family, and a scholar’s vow reshape two fates.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled that death by mosquito bite is an accidental death under an accident insurance policy, granting the deceased’s representatives the right to collect. The court noted the event is unusual and the cause unknowable, though neither party specifically contemplated such a risk.
The Chicago Times-Herald recounts a charmingly odd southern Indiana justice of the peace known for unconventional rulings. In one vignette the defendant’s attorney begins a plea but the judge stops him, declaring he already knows the man’s guilt and refuses to let further argument proceed.
Rev Dr R S MacArthur told a NYU medical graduation class that steamships powered by waves will soon cross oceans and breakfast in New York while dining in London. Professors laughed as he insisted the prospect is real and even a lunar voyage could be believed with enough confidence.
In the Detroit Journal a murmured scene questions whether a man confuses his heart with a colored shirt he wears. The onlookers stay silent though some consider offering advice or professions.
A report notes Frings as the first woman to practice medicine in Georgia has earned her certificate. The piece surveys diverse topics from wheat consumption to distant colonies, railways, and scientific advances, reflecting a late 19th century miscellany.
Captain Sherman of the whaling steamer Beluga announced the birth of his daughter Helen Herschel Sherman on Herschel Island, Arct ic Ocean. The event drew attention from four captains wives and local whalers, with Rev Stringer christening the baby and affirming American status for the child born to American parents abroad.
The Washington Star notes that between 1880 and 1894 about 2.5 million alligators were killed in Florida. In 1889 Kissimmee firms bought 30,000 hides and Jacksonville firms handled 30,000 skins. Fort Pierce hunters brought 4,000 pelts. Cocoa hunters killed 42 in one night.
The United States uses about 2,000,000 tons of sugar annually, roughly 4,000,000,000 pounds, about sixty pounds per person. Salt intake runs around 1,900,000 tons, or 2,000,000 pounds, slightly less than the sugar total.
The article notes Wyoming with the smallest female population 21 362 and New York the largest 8 020 960. It offers a statistical contrast and ends with a philosophical remark on human existence.
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